Vim (Vi Improved) is an immensely popular text editor that could very well be installed in your Linux distro. It is one of the more popular Vi replacements, possibly because it is as scriptable as Emacs.

Vim's primary author Bram Moolenaar releases Vim as charityware: people who so inclined can "pay" for Vim (and encourage its further development) by making a donation to Moolenaar's favourite charity. See http://www.vim.org/sponsor/index.php for more information. Payment can be made in a number of ways, including PayPal.

Puppy Linux is a small and light distribution with all the functionality of a large one. This is not just another derived distribution. It was built from the scratch taking components from many different sources and frequently implementing them in a novel way.

The main goals of PuppyLinux are not to be the fastest or smallest or prettiest, but to be highly functional in newer and older hardware.

Hello to the Shadowy Cabal: I'd like to nominate the W3C's Validator
Donation Program as a potential recipient of FLOSS Fund funds. W3C is certainly an agency that endorses Libre-ness and standards. The Validator can be (should be!) used by anyone who builds Web pages, and is completely free (both as beer and speech): http://validator.w3.org/source/

OpenVPN is a full-featured open source SSL VPN solution that accommodates a wide range of configurations, including remote access, site-to-site VPNs, Wi-Fi security, and enterprise-scale remote access solutions with load balancing, failover, and fine-grained access-controls. Starting with the fundamental premise that complexity is the enemy of security, OpenVPN offers a cost-effective, lightweight alternative to other VPN technologies that is well-targeted for the SME and enterprise markets.

GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.

It has many capabilities. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc.

The Internet Archive is a non-profit organization with the purpose of archiving digital information. As they describe in their about page they are working to ensure that our digital cultural artifacts will not be lost over time, and helping to improve access to literature and other non-digital information by working to digitize it.

The Apache Foundation supports many of the most widely used FLOSS projects. The Apache HTTP server and the Java application server Tomcat are two of the most well known examples, but the Apache Foundation supports some other really great projects as well, such as POI (Java classes for creating/modifying MS Office documents), Xerces (XML parser), and the ANT build tool.

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